Kalamazoo Public Library – Janet Ruth Heller

CAN POETRY BE FUNNY? Reading on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 7 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Public Library

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:November 3, 2018
Post category:Janet's Speaking Events Poetry Poetry Reading

Hear great funny poems at the “CAN POETRY BE FUNNY?” reading on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 7 p.m. at the Kalamazoo Public Library in the Van Deusen Room on the third floor. Special guest speakers are Don Cooney, Lori Moore, Dennis White, Marshall Washington, Judy Sarkozy, Garrard McLeod, Michael Cockrell, and Bonnie Jo Campbell. This event is free and open to the public. Local poets reading their work are Jennifer Clark, Joe Gross, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Kit Almy, Janet Ruth Heller, Deborah Gang, Melanie Crow, Margaret DeRitter, Kurt Luchs, Robin Church, Alison Kennedy, and Gemma Wesolowski. This event is sponsored by Friends of Poetry. This reading is free and open to the public. The Kalamazoo Public Library’s address is 315 S. Rose St., Kalamazoo MI 49007. For more information, please e-mail Elizabeth Kerlikowske at mme642@aol.com or phone the Kalamazoo Public Library at 269-342-9837.

Janet Read Her Poetry and Autographed Her Books at the Kalamazoo Public Library on December 5, 2014

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:December 6, 2014
Post category:Books Janet's Speaking Events Literature Poetry Reading

I had a great time reading my poetry and signing my books at the Kalamazoo Public Library on December 5, 2014. I was part of a book fair and poetry reading organized by Friends of Poetry during Art Hop events in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Art Hop is the first Friday of every month, and many organizations sponsor art shows, literary readings, musical performances, etc. (more…)

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

I also love Japanese haiku, especially those by Matsuo Bashō.

My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.